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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #40 on: September 28, 2013, 10:53:46 AM »
"Might be difficult, catching up with those two. Think I'd have better luck moving something heavy around..." Horizon peers over the edge of the rooftop, looking for large chunks of rubble or anything else conveniently available to throw. Then a thought occurs to him. "Wait wait wait, hang on. That policeman down there is keeping the repair crew out for no good reason. Something's up."

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #41 on: September 28, 2013, 11:40:55 AM »
Several candidates come to mind, the overflowing dumpster in the back, a scaffolding set up against the next building, with cans of paint left lying about, and of course, the two vehicles out front. Meanwhile, the truck driver has withdrawn to his vehicle, but the policeman remains standing where he was, leaning on a bicycle rack. Unusually attentive for someone so obstructive.
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #42 on: September 28, 2013, 12:18:23 PM »
"Looks to me like he's just having fun at the driver's expense... Well, I'll just be extra careful." Flashing Horizon a thumbs-up, Kaleidoscope hops off the roof and jumps again in midair to land on the museum. Crouching there, she sticks her head inside to check if the coast is clear before falling through the museum roof onto the top floor.
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #43 on: September 28, 2013, 12:26:55 PM »
Horizon, meanwhile, vaults over to the scaffolding to gather a few cans of paint. Aiming carefully at the stubborn cop's feet, he lets go of one, and it streaks toward its destination as though falling straight down. He's moving to another concealed position on the side of a building just around the corner before the shot lands, not waiting around to let someone catch a glimpse of him.

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #44 on: September 28, 2013, 12:45:06 PM »
Kaleidoscope

The landing is perfect, as always, as Kaleidoscope lands silently beside a display case containing bits of crystal glass suspended between mirrors. Quite pretty, though the rest of the gallery is only dimly lit by specks of light refracted off the glittering contraption.
Nothing seems amiss on this floor, but she'd need some light to do anything.

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The paint tumbles, bounces and spills haphazardly in a spray, causing both driver and police officer to stumble back to avoid it and giving the floor a huge mess as the truck driver looks up and about frantically. "Hey! You bastard, that could be dangerous...err, where the fuck did that come from officer?"

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #45 on: September 28, 2013, 12:48:01 PM »
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #46 on: September 28, 2013, 12:54:35 PM »
Horizon notices that the policeman's boots are stained a bright red...but only seconds after the paint actually hit him. Another oddity, there is a gap in the splattered drops of paint where the paint hit the driver, but the policeman isn't leaving a similar gap...

The cop is looking around, with a hand on his holster, but not actually drawing it.
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #47 on: September 28, 2013, 12:58:04 PM »
Horizon doesn't need too long to connect the dots. "Kaleidoscope," he murmurs into the commlink tucked inside his helmet. "I tagged the two outside with some paint. The policeman's an illusion, probably by whoever's throwing up the fake Pyrebird."
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #48 on: September 28, 2013, 01:24:35 PM »
Kaleidoscope looks at the display for a few seconds before turning around, reaching into her chest and producing a regular flashlight. She's just about turn around to sweep the light across the room when Horizon surprises her with the news. "...Gotcha. Guess you were right, then. Mr. Illusion had the same idea as us. I'll keep my eyes open."

She moves partially into the wall as she walks down the corridor, briefly shining the flashlight into each of the exhibit nooks as she passes them to give the whole floor a once-over for good targets or competition.
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #49 on: September 28, 2013, 01:40:21 PM »
The contraption she landed next to seems to be labeled Kaleidoscope of Stars, not especially famous, though it manages to at least be pretty. Down the hallway, taste seems to have become a decidedly optional  aspect of the exhibition, mainly paintings of abstract shapes and swirls, of one form or another. Hard to evaluate the artwork with only a name tag. Then after passing through a janitor's closet, she abruptly finds herself standing in a door that appears to be closed on the outside, but standing ajar on the inside. The lights are on inside the room, along with the faint sounds of paper.
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #50 on: September 28, 2013, 07:19:57 PM »
That was fast. She can't see the presumed competition, but there's the sounds of paper, so Kaleidoscope presumes there's some invisibility going on. After a moment's deliberation, she slinks back partway into the wall, then materializes a hand on the outside of the open door and audibly pushes it shut. Not too loudly - she hates slamming doors herself - but just loudly enough that whoever's there will hear it.

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #51 on: September 28, 2013, 07:27:09 PM »
Kaleidoscope can only see a rather cluttered desk,  with a ring binder lying open on the table, a page fluttering back into place. There is the barest flicker of motion somewhere in the room, but she can't quite pin down where, given how brief it was. Silence falls over the inventory records office.
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #52 on: September 28, 2013, 08:20:40 PM »
Just a short movement, but that means the illusionist's attention will be on the door now. Kaleidoscope slides through the wall, closer to the desk, to catch a look at what her new friend was reading, watching the binder and the door in silence.

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #53 on: September 28, 2013, 08:34:05 PM »
Whoever it was seems to have been perusing an inventory, a listing of arrivals in the past three months. The binder supplies a small photograph, the description, name, artist, arrival date and a reference to the insurance ID, though some are missing an insurance entry. On the table beside it is a log file. Looks like it was being cross referenced.

The room seems to flicker slightly. The details shift ever so slightly, some of the words becoming a vague squiggle. Under pressure, the illusionist seems to be getting careless with details. The sound of footsteps echo down the corridor outside.

Kaleidoscope senses something just slightly off. There's a stack of binders that weren't there before, just out of her line of sight and artfully lost in the clutter of binders and files. It would have gone entirely without notice if she wasn't expecting a trick like this. The small heap must be concealing something.
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And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #54 on: September 29, 2013, 04:07:22 AM »
With little else he can do, Horizon decides to put a bit more pressure on whoever it is that's creating the images. More attention out front means less attention on the inside of the museum. Another paint can, this time in white for even more color-mixing difficulty, wings its way toward the ground near the two outside. A little distracted by the radio silence, however, he's slow to get to a new vantage point on the building...

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #55 on: September 29, 2013, 07:41:45 AM »
The can hits the policeman straight on in the head, causing a blurring effect as it clips through the head, bounces off something and sending something small and painted white crashing to the ground. A second later the policeman is tumbling out of the patch of paint, staggering quite convincingly. More disturbingly, the noise of fighting between Arc Spark and Pyrebird is getting nearer.

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #56 on: September 29, 2013, 10:43:30 AM »
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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #57 on: September 29, 2013, 10:51:59 AM »
Horizon manages to get a good look at the fake policeman before the illusion reasserted itself. A tiny humanoid figure with wings, and the source of the illusion, just some terrible luck on it's part to be right where the paint hit, but it's not attacking, merely looking skywards expectantly.

The air seems warmer, and  shadows seem to waver slightly, as if a bright light source is approaching from the sky. Their opponent must have lured the REAL Pyrebird here. Not good.
Everything is edible. Just that there are things only edible once per lifetime.
It's a god-eat-god world.

Procrastination is the thief of time; Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves; The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #58 on: September 29, 2013, 10:58:34 AM »
Inside the museum, Kaleidoscope strides out of her hiding place and casually picks up the log file and binder with one hand, reaching into the fake stack with her other as if she wasn't seeing the illusion at all. The blur billows around her and fills the room, to the extent that it's lit.

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Re: 2000/01/01 - New Year Festivities
« Reply #59 on: September 29, 2013, 11:00:19 AM »
Oh boy. This could be going better. Horizon crouches on the side of the building, opening up the channel again. "We might be in trouble. Good news, I found the illusionist. Looks like a small fairy, wings and everything. Bad news, it's bringing in Pyrebird. The REAL Pyrebird."

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